Ever played Daikatana?

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I played the GBC one actually and quite liked it.

The other versions I stayed well and far away from, I don't think I'd want to suffer through them. The game seemed quite advanced for its time, pretty forward thinking, but just having good moving parts a good machine does not make - they have to work together in harmony. It wasn't the case with Daikatana.

No-one really talks about this, but... the biggest Daikatana "killer" was Ion Storm itself. While the team in Austin promised to redefine gaming with it, Warren Spector's guys actually did so merely a few months earlier with the release of their own game, the first and only GOTY to be produced by the studio and what's often hailed as the greatest PC game of all-time. How was Daikatana ever going to compete with its cousin?

 

[Deleted member 887798]

Haven't played Daikatana but I love John Romero. His youtube channel is great and he interviews a lot of legends of game development. It is clear to me that he is very passionate about his craft. The narrative around Daikatana never sat well with me. I know the ad campaign was unfortunate but many in the gaming media were attacking him personally for the flop. It is kind of silly when game development is such a complicated process with so many moving parts and people involved.


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Apparently, that ad was thought up by some suit at Eidos. John Romero had nothing to do with it, as he says hilariously here at exactly 8:14

 

[drasglaf]

I rented the N64 version back in the day but I didn't play much because it was terribly boring, or at least that's how I remember it.

 

[Zerpina]

Eh...

Daikatana wasn't the worst FPS I ever played, definitely not the best. It was ho-hum and mediocre at best, boringly kind of generically bland. It was the Kix cereal of the FPS world honestly...

And let's be honest, there were a bunch of better FPS games out at this time. I am sure John Romero had a ton of good ideas... just they either got scrapped or were woefully implemented. Mind you, I played the PC version of it.

I can't comment on the N64 or GBC versions, as the PC version left that...You know the "I just threw up" aftertaste in my mouth.

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

I remember playing the n64 version once or twice, I got stuck in one of the medieval stages( a puzzle involving bells, I think ), got through the gbc one, a few times, a rather competent action/adventure title.

 

[csanjuro]

played with fan patches, it was... alright